Unique Ethereum Addresses Break 50 Million, The Number Of Active Wallets Keeps Dropping

In our latest ethereum news, we find out that the number of the unique ethereum wallet addresses has breached the 50 million target this past Saturday on December 15. The same day the Ethereum network increased up to 168,506 unique crypto wallets which are showing a constant growth trend this year.

On January 4, the highest historical daily growth of the unique ethereum addresses happened by reaching 352,888 new addresses created on the network.

While the growth indicates that the number of already existing crypto wallets, there is also another indicator that shows the number of those crypto wallets that are actually active or better explained, the number of the unique sending and receiving addresses that carry out transactions in a day.

The number of active Ethereum addresses is, unfortunately, decreasing throughout this year. It peaked somewhere between January 4 and January 5 at 1.1 million but has dropped since below 1 million in mid-January and has fallen more than 70 percent over the year. Yesterday there were 328,400 addresses recorded.

On the other hand, the number of unique Bitcoin wallets is recorded at 364,387 just two days ago which is down from 1 million since January 3. The active addresses of BTC go up to 461,000 recorded yesterday.

The highest recorded number of active bitcoin addresses was registered a few days ago, December 14 with more than 1.13 million active wallets. Also, the number of crypto users has shown growth by almost 50 percent only this year, gaining approximately 17 million new verified users.